Antebellum American culture : an interpretive anthology

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Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Contents

Introduction: Organization and Themes

Unit One: Socialization and the Problem of Influence

1. The Art and Responsibilities of Family Government

A. Family Government and National Government

Heman Humphrey (1840)

B. The Mission of American Women

Catharine Beecher (1842)

C. The Feminine Regeneration of Everyday Life

Mrs. A. J. Graves (1843)

2. The Discipline and Self-Discipline of the Young

A. Instilling a Capacity for Self-Government

Samuel Goodrich (1838)

Lydia M. Child (1831) B. Neutralizing Sibling Rivalry

Catharine Sedgwick (1841)

Jacob Abbott (1841)

C. The Problem of Unwilling Submission

Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents (1829)

Prison Discipline Society (1829)

Thomas L. Harris (1850)

3. The Schoolroom as an Extended Family

A. The Demand for Public Schools

Philadelphia Working Men's Committee (1830)

Philadelphia National Gazette (1830)

B. The "Parental" State

Horace Mann (1846)

C. The Dilemmas of Democratic Discipline

Horace Mann (1844)

Joseph Hale (1845)

D. A Struggle for Mastery Edward Eggleston (1871)

E. Schools and Mills for Girls

Lucy Larcom (1889)

F. Lessons on "A House Divided"

William H. McGuffey (1857)

G. "What Is a Young Man Fitted For, When He Takes His Degree?"

Reports on the Course of Instruction in Yale College (1830)

4. Advice on Self-Culture and Sexual Identity

A. Self-Culture

William Ellery Channing (1838)

Manual of Self-Education (1842)

Henry Ward Beecher (1846)

B. The "Restless, Anxious Longing" of American Women

Young Lady's Own Book (1833)

William Alcott (1850)

Sarah C. Edgarton (1843) Catharine Beecher (1846)

5. Feminist Alternatives

A. Militant Mill-Girls

Harriet Robinson (1898)

B. The Discovery of Female Enslavement

Sarah Grimké (1838)

Wendell Phillips (1840)

"Declaration of Sentiments" (1848)

The Lowell Courier's Response (1848)

C. "Discordant and Disordered Households"

The Lily (1849 and 1855)

D. A House Divided: Divorce

Ernestine Potowsky Rose (1860)

Unit Two: Struggles Over Access to Wealth and Power

1. "The Anxious Spirit of Gain"

A. The Discontents of Limitless Aspiration

Alexis de Tocqueville (1840) J. N. Bellows (1843)

Henry W. Bellows (1845)

B. Speculation and Community

Timothy Flint (1826)

D. W. Mitchell (1862)

Harriet Martineau (1837)

Walter Colton (1850)

Bayard Taylor (1850)

2. Access to Land

A. The Demand for Land as a Natural Right

Memorial to Congress, Mechanics' Free Press (1828)

Thomas Skidmore (1829)

True Workingman (1846)

B. The Right of Access Versus the Rights of Landlords

James Fenimore Cooper (1845)

Debates on a Homestead Bill (1852)

3. The Changing Uses of Law

A. Two Versions of Law for the Frontier